Comment on Why isn't using a key file the most common way to log into self-hosted servers?

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What you’re looking for is probably something like certificate authentication, or mTLS. It exists, but it’s kind of a pain to set up on client devices so it’s not very common.

What’s more common and easier to set up and is nearly the same thing, is passkey authentication. Same in-flight security characteristics, but you typically need to pass a simple challenge for your device to unlock it.

There are a bunch of self-hosted auth options for both

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